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Thursday, February 28, 2013

I am all for making very significant cuts to the bloated federal budget -- our government has a spending and debt problem -- but I would bet that many in agreement never considered how Obama would use cuts from the sequester that he created against us... including laying the groundwork for it to be an excuse for his failed economic policies.

Obama's sequester machinations are scare tactics, but he is still leveraging this crisis that he manufactured to make us less safe... and I think that was his plan all along. It's the perfect cover. He gets to gut our military with wholesale troop cuts, delay aircraft carrier deployments, etc., while "mainstream" media covers for him.

Still, I say "Embrace that sequester" -- even if it means Obama won't stop using it against us. That's one sure way to awaken more people to the disastrous effects of his agenda. That, in turn, will ignite more "brushfires of freedom" against Obama's tyranny.

Carol Platt Liebau has an article titled "Explaining the Sequester," where she posted Kansas Congressman Mike Pompeo's response to Obama mouthpiece "Jay Carney's gibe about what he would say to workers furloughed because of the sequester." Carol calls Pompeo "a conservative who is able to explain his positions with ease and clarity." After reading Pompeo's statement, I think you'll agree. Carol also offers up this chart "that highlights, in graphic form, the size of the cuts the President is claiming will bring America to its knees":

Quoting: "The book 'The Price of Politics,' by Washington Post Associate Editor Bob Woodward, makes it clear the idea for the draconian spending cuts originated in the White House – and not in Congress … Woodward describes the behind-the-scenes haggling last year that laid the groundwork for sequestration."

Bob Woodward: My extensive reporting for my book "The Price of Politics" shows that the automatic spending cuts were initiated by the White House and were the brainchild of Lew and White House congressional relations chief Rob Nabors — probably the foremost experts on budget issues in the senior ranks of the federal government. Obama personally approved of the plan...The sequester is used against us...

Doug Ross @ Journal: "Obama created the sequester. He designed its brutal cuts to the military. And he desperately seeks to eviscerate the military."

A.W.R. Hawkins: "In anticipation of sequester cuts, Sec. of Defense Leon Panetta has ordered a reduction from two carrier groups to one in the Persian Gulf."

US Naval Institute News: "The U.S. Navy will delay the refueling of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) for an unknown period because of the uncertain fiscal environment due to the ongoing legislative struggle, the service told Congress in a Friday message obtained by USNI News. ... The move by the navy is the second this week involving funding for carriers. On Wednesday it announced it would delay the deployment of the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) to the Middle East do to the ongoing budget strife bringing the total number of carriers in U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) to one until funding normalizes."

John McCormack: [Sequestration] will force the Marine Corps to shrink by 25 percent--from 202,000 Marines to 145,000. What's more, "by the end of calendar year 2013, less than half of our ground units will be trained to the minimum readiness level required for deployment," Marine Corps commandant James Amos testified to Congress this month.

John Hill: Despite potential budget cuts being 4 days away and with Congress and the Administration negotiating to avoid them, the Department of Homeland Security has already started releasing hundreds of illegal aliens held in local jails in anticipation of automatic "sequestration" cuts – out of a planned total of more than 10,000 aliens to be released.

Note: In my opinion, Barack Obama should be held accountable for any crimes committed by the criminal illegal aliens that he released.

Amy Payne: "Now that President Obama has turned against sequestration, he is suggesting that spending cuts to federal agencies must result in dire consequences. Firefighters, emergency responders, and teachers will all be cut, he claims. Media outlets have played up these sob stories, copying White House releases in their local news stories and soliciting sad testimonials from people who supposedly would be affected by these cuts."

For the first time since Election Day, President Barack Obama is on the defensive. That's because March 1, automatic spending cuts ("sequestration") go into effect – $1.2 trillion over 10 years, half from domestic (discretionary) programs, half from defense.

The idea had been proposed and promoted by the White House during the July 2011 debt-ceiling negotiations. The political calculation was that such draconian defense cuts would drive the GOP to offer concessions.

It backfired. The Republicans have offered no concessions. Obama's bluff is being called and he's the desperate party. He abhors the domestic cuts. And as commander in chief he must worry about indiscriminate Pentagon cuts that his own defense secretary calls catastrophic.

Bob Woodward: Obama is exhibiting a "kind of madness I haven't seen in a long time" for a decision not to deploy an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf because of budget concerns. ... Under the Constitution, the President is commander-in-chief and employs the force. And so we now have the President going out because of this piece of paper and this agreement. 'I can't do what I need to do to protect the country.'

ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl: "The Obama administration's list of what will happen [scroll to the end of this post] if upcoming spending cuts go into effect is downright terrifying. In recent days, officials have warned of more forest fires, workplace deaths and, heaven-forbid — chicken shortages."

Jeff Sessions: "The President had 18 months to develop reforms to improve the government, but instead he announced furloughs of federal workers as a political cudgel. Yet, his golf weekend at the yacht club with Tiger Woods cost taxpayers over a million dollars—enough money to save 341 federal workers from furlough."

Michelle Malkin: Traffic alert: There’s a massive clown car pileup in the Beltway. And with the White House court jesters of sequester behind the wheel, no one is safe. Fiscal sanity, of course, is the ultimate victim.

President Obama has been warning America that if Congress allows mandatory spending “cuts” of a piddly-widdly 2 percent to go into effect this week, the sky will fall. The manufactured crisis of “sequestration” was Obama’s idea in the first place.

But that hasn’t stopped the Chicken Little in Chief from surrounding himself with every last teacher, senior citizen and emergency responder who will be catastrophically victimized by hardhearted Republicans. Curses on those meanie Republicans! How dare they acquiesce to the very plan for “cuts” — or rather, negligible reductions in the explosive rate of federal spending growth — that Obama himself hatched?

John Hayward: [I]n reality, the President has not invested one single moment in putting together a package of “smart” spending cuts to avoid the sequester… while Republicans have. They’ve put several specific, realistic plans on the table. A responsible President would be negotiating the differences between his plan and the Republican plan, not racing around the country whipping up panic without ever putting up ideas of his own. And the notion that this bloated government can’t trim spending by 2.3 percent without grabbing more tax revenue is patently absurd.

Sarah Palin: "If we can’t stomach modest cuts that would lower federal spending by a mere 0.3% per year out of a current federal budget of $3.6 trillion, then we might as well signal to the whole world that we have no serious intention of dealing with our debt problem.

If we are going to wet our proverbial pants over 0.3% in annual spending cuts when we’re running up trillion dollar annual deficits, then we’re done. Put a fork in us. We’re finished. We’re going to default eventually and that’s why the feds are stockpiling bullets in case of civil unrest.

If we ARE serious about putting our fiscal house in order, then let’s stop the hysterics, tighten our belts, and take our medicine."

More from Charles Krauthammer: What we're talking about here is two cents on the dollar. Every dollar the government spends today, 35 cents is borrowed from the Chinese and others. What is going on here is ending up in a position where we borrow not 35, but 33 cents, and that is going to bring Armageddon. An example of the cynicism of this campaign, is one lobbyist for the liberal causes leading 3,000 organizations in opposing the cuts, who told The Washington Post the following: 'The worst case scenario is the sequester hits and nothing really bad happens.'

Think of the cynicism of that. The worst case scenario is that the government makes a small, minuscule cut in spending on the way to beginning of a journey of recovery in to fiscal health, and that it doesn't hurt us, we actually come out of it alive. And, that to them, is the worst case. It means, think of how they are weighing the national interest, which needs a cut in spending and these parochial special interests."Thug Obama" threatens critics...

Brett LoGiurato: Bob Woodward said this evening on CNN that a "very senior person" at the White House warned him in an email that he would "regret doing this," the same day he has continued to slam President Barack Obama over the looming forced cuts known as the sequester.

WMAL: Bob Woodward isn't the only person who's received threats for airing the Obama administration's dirty laundry. It seems anyone is a potential target of the White House these days -- even former senior members of the Clinton administration. A day after Woodward's claim that a senior White House official had told him he would "regret" writing a column criticizing President Obama's stance on the sequester, Lanny Davis, a longtime close advisor to President Bill Clinton, told WMAL's Mornings on the Mall Thursday he had received similar threats...Here's Chris Good's 57 Terrible Consequences of the Sequester:

Looks like the only thing left for us to hear is that "sequester" is a disaster of biblical proportions... I mean Old Testament, real wrath of God type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes... The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

A final note from Charles Krauthammer: The Obama administration has every incentive to make the sky fall, lest we suffer that terrible calamity — cuts the nation survives. Are they threatening to pare back consultants, conferences, travel and other nonessential fluff? Hardly. It shall be air-traffic control. Meat inspection. Weather forecasting. ... [Obama] cannot win if "nothing bad really happens." Indeed, he'd look both foolish and cynical for having cried wolf. Obama's incentive to deliberately make the most painful and socially disruptive cuts possible (say, oh, releasing illegal immigrants from prison) is enormous. And alarming. Hail Armageddon.

I understand the precept of Sovereign Immunity. That said, I still find Obama's decision to release criminal illegal aliens outrageous and irresponsible. In my opinion, he should be held accountable for any crimes committed by the illegal aliens he released. For those thinking he was not behind that decision, let's go back a few months and revisit his unconscionable interference in the federal investigation of a senate intern who was both an illegal immigrant AND a registered sexual offender. Why? He wanted the arrest delayed until AFTER he and Democrat Sen. Robert "Bob" Menendez both won reelection.

*UPDATED* March 1st: AP Exclusive:
WASHINGTON -- The Homeland Security Department released from its jails more than 2,000 illegal immigrants facing deportation in recent weeks due to looming budget cuts and planned to release 3,000 more during March, The Associated Press has learned.The newly disclosed figures, cited in internal budget documents reviewed by the AP, are significantly higher than the "few hundred" illegal immigrants the Obama administration acknowledged this week had been released under the budget-savings process.http://bigstory.ap.org/article/documents-us-released-more-2000-immigrants

John Hill: Despite potential budget cuts being 4 days away and with Congress and the Administration negotiating to avoid them, the Department of Homeland Security has already started releasing hundreds of illegal aliens held in local jails in anticipation of automatic "sequestration" cuts – out of a planned total of more than 10,000 aliens to be released.

I’m appalled to learn the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has begun to release hundreds of illegal aliens from custody, the first of potentially thousands to soon be freed under the guise of federal budget cuts. This is pure political posturing and the height of absurdity given that the releases are being granted before the federal ‘sequestration’ cuts have even gone into effect.

This represents a return to exactly the kind of catch-and-release procedures that have long made a mockery of our country’s immigration system. The news is especially concerning when coupled with DHS’ acknowledgment today that it may not be able to maintain operation of 34,000 immigration jail beds, as mandated by Congress.

Everyone knows the federal government must get a handle on spending, and it is well past time that the President begin working with Congress to find real budget solutions. But we cannot let public safety and the rule of law be collateral damage of the President’s failed leadership to pass a budget.

Friday, February 22, 2013

"George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Washington served as a general and commander-in-chief of the colonial armies during the American Revolution, and later became the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. He died on December 14, 1799, in Mount Vernon, Virginia."

“These are the times that try men’s souls.” So wrote Thomas Paine, in words of desperation, written in the darkest hours of our struggle for liberty. "The picture you see here was painted to recall that winter of 1777-1778, at the lowest, most hopeless and discouraging time in our revolutionary war. It was at such a time that General Washington humbly beseeched his God for the strength and the resolution to endure. It is my fervent hope and prayer that coming through this picture will once again whisper the spirit of Valley Forge, of suffering, devotion, and pain, of yearning for liberty, and of the hand of God in the affairs of men". ~Arnold Friberg (1913–2010)

Democide is the elimination of a despised group by a government. It includes genocide, politicide, and other forms of state-sponsored mass murder. The hated minority headed for extermination may be defined by religious, racial, political, class, cultural or other attributes. Between 200 and 260 million people were the victims of democide in the 20th century, several times more than were killed in international wars during that period.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Perhaps if Bill Clinton had done his job way back when, the attacks of 9/11/2001 would've never happened. Because when he really truly had the chance to push the button that would've killed bin Laden, Clinton failed to act.

Let's revisit the cowardice that occurred on his watch: The disgrace in his own "mission accomplished" -- his refusal to okay heavy armor in Somalia that resulted in two of our Black Hawk helos down.

Let's recount the terrorist attacks that occurred on his watch: On the original "1 World Trade Center" (the North Tower); on the housing complex at Khobar Towers; on two of our embassies in Africa; and on the USS Cole (DDG-67). Clinton's fecklessness in response to all these terrorist acts only served to embolden Osama bin Laden (OBL), his fingerprints already on much of it. OBL declared war on us... and Clinton failed to act.

2. The CIA's "OBL unit" informed him multiple times that they could take Osama bin Laden out, and Clinton failed to act.

3. Clinton knew that OBL was at Tarnak Farms -- he could have permanently "crop-dusted" it -- but Clinton failed to act.

The final dagger in Clinton's complicity: "NBC News has obtained, exclusively, extraordinary secret video, shot by the U.S. government. It illustrates an enormous opportunity the Clinton administration had to kill or capture bin Laden. In the fall of 2000, in Afghanistan, unmanned, unarmed spy planes called Predators flew over known al-Qaeda training camps..." and CLINTON FAILED TO ACT!

Monday, February 18, 2013

They say the eyes are the windows to the soul. Well, take a good close look at this image of Obama -- it's from the second presidential debate. Those daggers in his eyes came out the moment Romney called him out for lying. On national TV. And, Obama WAS lying that night... and still is. It's what Obama does. In fact, if we've learned anything about Obama these last four long years, it's that he LIES.

Of course, Obama avoided further embarrassment that night when moderator and "nose tackle" Candy Crowley immediately jumped in and became a left guard pulling and covering for him. In a scene that seemed rehearsed, Obama leaned on his "go-to girl" and asked Candy to pony up her day-after-Benghazi-attack Rose Garden transcript of 9/12/2012 that she "miraculously" had stashed like a hot pocket in her XXL hip pocket. Sadly, the rest is history... of a cover-up that is STILL going on.

And that's why this has to be said:

"If you REALLY know what Obama stands for and you still support him, then you're a traitor. I just can't say it any more clearly."

Memorize this. Say it to those you know who still support him. Get up in their grill. Lay out the facts. Make the case. Speak THE TRUTH!

“To provide some perspective, experts estimate that at the peak of the Iraq war American troops were firing around 5.5 million rounds per month. At that rate, the [Department of Homeland Security] is armed now for a 24-year Iraq war. A 24-year Iraq war! I’m going to tell you what I think is going on. I don’t think domestic insurrection. Law enforcement and national security agencies, they play out multiple scenarios. … I’ll tell you what I think they’re simulating: the collapse of our financial system, the collapse of our society and the potential for widespread violence, looting, killing in the streets, because that’s what happens when an economy collapses. I suspect that just in case our fiscal situation, our monetary situation, collapses, and following it the civil society collapses, that is the rule of law, they want to be prepared. I know why the government’s arming up: It’s not because there’s going to be an insurrection; it’s because our society is unraveling.”

Related links...

Andrew Malcolm: "Why are the feds loading up on so much ammo?"
"In a puzzling, unexplained development, the Obama administration has been buying and storing vast amounts of ammunition in recent months... Several other agencies of the federal government also began buying large quantities of bullets last year. The Social Security Administration, for instance, not normally considered on the frontlines of anything but dealing with seniors, explained that its purchase of millions of rounds was for special agents' required quarterly weapons qualifications. They must be pretty poor shots. But DHS has been silent about its need for numerous orders of bullets in the multiple millions. Indeed, Examiner writer Ryan Keller points out Janet Napolitano's agency illegally redacted information from some ammunition solicitation forms following media inquiries."http://news.investors.com/politics-andrew-malcolm/020813-643707-obama-homeland-security-vast-ammunition-purchases.htm

DHS Ammo Purchases: Gun Control by Another Name?
A.W.R Hawkins: "[G]un owners are facing a perfect storm. Civilians are buying up every box of ammo they can find in anticipation of a federal gun grab and less ammo is making it to the shelves to replace what is being purchased, largely because so many rounds of ammo are being sent to fill government orders. Sounds like gun control by another name."http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/02/10/DHS-Ammo-Purchases-Gun-Control-By-Another-Name

Bill Croke: "Barack Obama is the embodiment of a country in willful decline in both domestic and foreign affairs, and he seems to relish his role. The president is a political Dr. Jack Kevorkian assisting our slow, national suicide."http://spectator.org/archives/2013/02/18/were-history

Matt Bracken: When The Music Stops – How America’s Cities May Explode In Violence

Thursday, February 14, 2013

The following is a transcript of an entirely fictional conversation between Barack Obama and two of his closest and most loyal staffers. How loyal? They're already "made" -- they have blood on their hands, as does Obama. As you read this, consider the possibility that this dialogue did take place, the result of an Obama White House run by a ruthless individual hell-bent on the destruction of the America he truly hates. Because Barack Obama is a cancer to Liberty. He a soulless statist without conscience nor empathy. He is the most dangerous American president ever. And this "dear leader" runs the most poisonous evil administration ever. They will follow him to the bitter end. They see "glory" in his image. They see "truth" in his lies. And they revel in his presence. It's all there, the orgasmic fawning over an evil man with a diseased mind. They will do his bidding and come for you. The only question that remains is when...

Beginning of transcript:

Barack Obama: He was at it again last night... on the radio AND on Fox News. I'm tired of it... and him! Do something about it. Make Mark Levin go away. I will not stand for him calling me out daily. I'm tired of it!

WH staffer #1: Yes, I've got the transcripts... they made me wince too. I assure you Mr. President that, with your authorization, we can expedite some "pre-packaged viciousness" into this man's life. And his family. You recall our last conversation about him?

WH staffer #2: For the record, the president is not here. Secret Service logs will show "Renegade" meeting with unnamed legislators and lobbyists.

Barack Obama: Well, you know what I want. No paper trail. Nothing that can come back to me. So run it... control by negation. Consider this my lone verbal authorization to carry out everything previously discussed. I want the IRS to step on this man and chew him up. Doctor the power grids into his residences and places of business so we can sabotage them on demand. Complete surveillance -- that's what I want. Have our guys at NSA assign a dedicated Reaper -- I want its live video feed available in my study. You understand? Place wiretaps on his Landmark Legal too. I want this self-professed Constitutional scholar to FEEL THE HEAT! He has children, yes?

End of transcript.

My response: Know this with all your heart. We can survive their attacks and beat back their tyranny. We are on the right side of history. We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. Stand ready. We are not alone. We never were. Embrace this fight. For the future of those fighting for Freedom everywhere. We are it... the last bastion of hope.

Thursday, February 7, 2013

"He can LIE and break all his campaign promises, avoid addressing the job situation, double black unemployment, kill four Americans in Benghazi, run guns to Mexican Drug Cartels, set policies to kill citizens without due process, print money like it's going out of style, ruin our healthcare industry, give billions to fund raisers with failed companies, eliminate his job council without attending a meeting, raise taxes on everyone, never pass a budget, increase spending, increase the deficit, divide the country, make racist comments, send F-14's to the Muslim Brotherhood, and you STILL THINK HE IS DOING A GOOD JOB? You've got to be an IDIOT." ~E. Saker

"Mainstream" media made the correct decision to redact the names of police officers targeted in fugitive cop killer Christopher Jordan Dorner's manifesto, but that redaction should not include his pro-Obama anti-gun sentiments. Protect the cops, yes, but the influences on this man's mindset are newsworthy